Tag Archives: refinement
It’s like a onion: it explains the basics, but you can go a level deeper.
For this video, I got my vintage camera from the attic. Removed the dust, charged the old battery and headed for the city of Leiden. I met Bas Baas and talked with him about my book “The waves of Agile”. … Continue reading
Agile Tour London
On 22 October I gave a presentation on the Agile Tour London. I talked about the value of refinement and stated that refinement should focus on divining a good solution. So rather than updating the workflow tool, like Jira. And … Continue reading
Next week …Agile Tour London
Looking foreward to breaking silos on the Agile Tour London. I see some nice familiar faces in the line-up. Will be great!
Speaking at Agile DevOps East 2021
I am thrilled to announce my contribution to the Agile DevOps conference that is organized by TechWell coming November. I will speak about refinement and how to unlock its potential. Good refinement makes development more predictable, leads to better solutions, … Continue reading
Agile Thoughts Magazine
Agile thoughts is a free online magazine that aims to disclose experiences and enable meaning-full connections. The editors collect treasures from bold agile thinkers and share them with their readers. The May Issue is the third edition of Agile Thoughts … Continue reading
Agile Business Day Venice – A sneak preview
On 11 and 12 September the Agile Business Day is being held. Two days of conference with a great line-up of speakers. I am proud to be one of them. This week I have been preparing my talk on refinement, … Continue reading
18 Questions to Ask for Better Backlog Refinement
Refinement is time spent during the current sprint discussing and elaborating product backlog items so that they are ready for future sprints. Unfortunately, many teams do not unlock the full potential of refinement. Backlog items should be sliced, and a … Continue reading
Refinement as a quality enabler-lessons learned in an agile sales environment
I currently work as an Agile coach in a sales environment. A commercial environment differs from a general IT setting and applying agile in this volatile environment brings its own challenges. Fortunately, when you start translating these challenges to the … Continue reading
QUPER Model for better requirements
Over the last weeks I have been reading in Gojko Adzics book Specification by Example. Tonight I stumbled on his section about the QUPER model. Gojko describes that he didn’t apply the model himself, but finds it contains some interesting … Continue reading
The Refinement process; Thinking ahead increases adaptively and the quality of the solution
Refinement is an important element of Scrum. It’s the process where the product backlog items for future sprints are prepared. Experience learns that when development teams get up to steam, the refinement process becomes a new bottleneck. The development team … Continue reading
Derk-Jan de Grood 